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Legal Lockout is a form of rights stripping where terms are implemented that modify users' legal rights or access to legal remedies. A common legal lockout practice is to implement forced arbitration of some kind.

Consumer rights impact

Incidents

Activision Blizzard account lock and forced arbitration

Main article: Activision Blizzard account lock and forced arbitration

Smartwool adds forced arbitration to EULA

Main article: Smartwool adds forced arbitration to EULA